Tuesday, May 10, 2016

tomatoes have been transplanted, potatoes are suntanning, many herbs have been planted and a few busy days!

busy few days...but at least all of that fog and mist moved out. i love fog - i think it is a magical time and faeries come out to play because they know that we will have a very hard time seeing them. but having some blue and some sun.....that's my fave.

these 13 pepper plants might look a little scraggly and sad but we overwintered them in the house - and somehow they survived! they even produced 5 peppers over the winter! now that they are in the hot greenhouse they will bush out and start producing peppers much earlier than i ones i planted from seed last week!

probably a good enough time to throw in some dinner (please don't ever call it lunch to my face - it's DINNER!). i normally make a beautiful from-scratch salsa but - being without teeth - i need to gum everything. so i had to blitzkreig the salsa and guacamole. i have no problem chewing through the chicken and the refried beans. but i have to eat my wrap with a knife and fork.

check out these 200 potatoe seeds that we saved from our own plants last year! we have 60 irish cobblers, 60 yukon gold, 40 russets and 40 red chieftains. we have found through trial and error that those numbers can keep us in potatoes until around mid-march. all while providing us with seed potatoes for the following year.

that's 7 years and counting of never buying potatoe seed and knowing that our potatoes have never been exposed to pesticides or any other kind of "icides". we grow our potatoes in tire towers....it makes my buddy Pioneer Preppy stark raving mad!!!!

kids - i keep talking about teeth and what i can eat/gum without having any teeth. if i am boring you to death, i am sorry. but i just know that i was talked into fillings, keeping teeth, getting crowns and bridges, then partials....all to no avail. i have ground my teeth since i was a baby and nothing made me stop grinding them - especially in bed all night long! when i think of the thousands of dollars that i spent trying to keep my teeth and constantly needing re-adjustments for this or that....i wish i had of had them removed 10 yrs ago. since having them removed - NOT a single headache or migraine. NOT ONE! here's hoping that the migraines and headaches were due to grinding. and if someone would have shared all of this info with me years ago - i never would have put myself through all the various manifestations of dentistry. so, if you are having constant problems with your teeth, i am giving you my advice from my experience - do with it what you will.

if any of you would like to talk about any of this, my email address is kymberzmail@gmail.com

here's a great sushi salad - all of which i can eat woohoo!

there's rice, dipping sauce, lobster, tuna, avocado, hot peppers (jambaloney was crying eating them - i won't touch the things - i have used them to make fire before. no - it's really true - they're deadly!) and some hearts of palm and pickled onions. deelish!

my tomatoe seedlings in the greenhouse in the house were all 5-8 inches long - they HAD to be transplanted! we buried them up to their little heads and put them in these 5 gallon pots. we'll bring them outside at the beginning of june and jambaloney will make a windbreak thing for them.

lots and lots of tomatoes plus a whole pile of other stuff - some overwintered, some started in little pots to be planted outside in the beds in a few weeks.

lots of herbs were planted! we are herb crazy - we eat the herbs raw in a variety of food and then dry some for the winter months.

more herbs and various pots of things.

here's 5 more trout jambaloney caught the other day.

the 2 biggest are for Pioneer Preppy and the 3 small ones are for Sweet Sandy. it's actually kind of amazing that both of us love any kind of fish or seafood (except for swordfish - i didn't care for that at all!)...but we have access to some of the freshest fish, seafood and shellfish - it's awesome!

which brings me to another plate of sushi - we can't get enough of it and eat it just about 3 times a week!

that's lobster, tuna and avocado sushi. the dipping sauce is the kicker - raw ginger, raw garlic, soya, sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. normally there would be chives and green onions but the chives are just coming up and i am not holding out hope on green onions this year. i think i am going to cheat and plant organic onions in order to get the green shoots.

so we have had a couple of busy days, jambaloney is working on his contract and then we are off to do this:

well not jambaloney. he would try to kill himself with a rubber mallet if i ever even suggested that he get a merman tail. he's actually as in love with our river and ocean as much as i am. it's just that he's a trout - not a merman!

13 comments:

MMMM Trout!!! And ya know those three are big enough this time I won't even steal Sandy's trout because I am generous like that and have enough already. UNless she waits too long and I snatch hers anyway :)

I love all forms of seafood except oysters but my fav is really bluefin tuna steaks.

I have been meaning to ask about the tires. I see you use them for potatoes and thought I saw another post where you grew something else in them. Is there no food safety concern about using tires or is that an old wives tale?

I want to try and keep peppers going through to the next year but wont until we have done an extension to the house and have some south facing windows, we are now growing from our own seed potatoes hope its something we can continue to do.I have just read back on your blog about your dental problems, I now have a partial fitted, I had six implants fitted after a parting gift from my ex, after 20 years the implants started to become loose and I decided to go with a partial than go through all that again and the cost.

I'm sure sorry the dental thing has been such a trial for you. I know it hurts.

Now that we are gardening I can better appreciate your efforts there. We are not anywhere near on your scale, but we are trying to get a good grip on gardening. I find I enjoy some of it, though not the hard work.

"Who will help me eat the tomatoes?" said the Little Red Hen.

" I will," said Harry, "but I'll be utterly damned if I'm going to spread in the pig poop!"

I think I'll quit lurking and just make myself at home here. For the record, I'm jealous of your obvious green thumb. I try, but often fail. At least I keep trying. (and so far, my herbs are doing great this year!)

You've been very busy in your greenhouse girlie :-) Before you know it you'll have all kinds of stuff to tend too. I see you and Jam have been out fishing and cooking some delicious trout....YUM....I'm so jealous, no fishing here lately :-(

Homemade sushi!!! OMG....LOOKS AMAZING!!!Wish I live close to you both.Sending hugs and love your way.Sandy

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we are jambaloney and kymber. here's a pic of us below...we look very happy and content. it's because we really are!

About jambaloney

(he's only 23 in this pic...he has 20+years of additional muscle now...if you can believe it!)

kymber here and talking about jambaloney.

i've always called him my angel. my rock. my best half. the best part of what i have always wanted to become.

he has a soul as big as the biggest mountain, he is strong, he is in incredible physical condition, he is 51 and yet most people think he is under 40. he is humble and modest, charming, gorgeous and will help anyone with anything at anytime. he never grumbles and only every now and again complains or is a tiny bit cranky (nothing that a hug can't fix!). he can cut both sides out of 70 tires in minutes, build raised beds from scrap wood that he drags out of the forest, weedwhack 800ft of our road down to the river, and haul more wheelbarrows of dirt, mulch, rocks and seaweed than is probably medically-advised. he's learned how to braid, make bread and no one makes better rice - not even the chinese. he supports my every, crazy endevour. he went 44 years without a driver's license and got his license after being trained by my crazily-wonderful french canadian friend in 2 weeks. she never stopped talking the whole time. in french.

he has biked everywhere his entire life, at one job he biked 24km EACH WAY. that's to and from! 24km to work AND 24km from work! oh and just accidentally has an honours degree in philosophy.

i believe that he is Our Lord's most beautiful and perfect creation. but i might be biased. he can very accurately shoot a ben pearson cougar re-curve from both the left and right. and his aim is dead on.

he is bow-legged and only 5'7", but has the most incredible eyes. and a tiny mole on his upper lip. he writes the most romantic "insta-poems". he tells me he loves me several times a day. he calls me "babe" and "honey". and he means it.he loves hot sauce and spicey things like cayenne and banana peppers, he buys (or now picks) me flowers, he left a lucrative, high-paying IT job and his family to follow me here to this remote little island. he builds me shelves and washes all of our laundry with me by hand.

oh and he was baptized Anglican. and was an alter boy. sheesh. somehow, through my intervention, i am turning him into a pagan-christian-fundamentalist-confuscian. look, even i can't figure that out!

the name jambaloney is a nickname that i gave him over 10 years ago. he still uses it. he can be reached at "jambaloney@gmail.com". he loves comments or emails. and he loves me.

if i were given the opportunity to wish one thing for the world - i would wish that every woman on the planet had a jambaloney. i know that i could save the world this way. i have friends who have asked me to clone him. i am trying. believe me, i am trying. one day i will perfect the science involved, and when that happens, i promise all of you a jambaloney.

i love him more than...breathing, lobster, boiled dinner, fresh bread out of the oven, bugging out, singing back up for Madonna (ok...i made that one up!), fresh sheets on the bed, a glass of red wine after a long day, sunflower seeds, lavender, growing my own potatoes, T.S. Eliot, dancing, my babies (who are really just cranky old cats!) and the Bible.

i love him more than i love Framboise Manor. and i really love Framboise Manor.

About kymber

(this pic might seem odd. trust me, it's not. 20 yrs ago kymber went shopping with a girlfriend from the military and bought this dress. then she hooked up with that girlfriend recently. they caught up through email and one day kymberz friend mentioned that specific dress. kymber said she still had it (kymber still has her prom gown for crying out loud!). the friend did not believe it. so we had to take a pic of kymber wearing the 20yr old dress for her friend. kymber always likes to add accessories...and well, we had the bunny ears laying around. ya know, cuz everyone always has pink bunny ears laying around. ok, that's it...i am out of here! jambaloney)

what can i say about kymber?? A LOT!!most of it will have to wait for blog entries ‘cuz i just don’t have enough space here to do her justice…

so i’ll have to do my best… first and foremost, kymber is my partner and i will love her forever. she is the best partner anyone could ever have, i am one lucky guy!! she is 46, she is sweet as can be, smart as a whip, super cute, exceptionally feminine, strong as an ox, honest, kind, empathetic, wise, an amazing dancer, a master wit in speaking and writing….i could go on..i will!

at 5’ 1’’ she packs a wallop – a true force of nature -she is a master gardener and chef and spent 10 years in the Canadian Military – she has done 2 tours of Alert (the north bloody-cold pole). she is a UN-certified Korean linguist and spoils our 2 cats rotten. she also spent 12yrs working in the federal government, as a communications analyst at SolGen (now PSEPC) and Fintrac. she loves nature in the true sense of the phrase..the wildflowers, insects and birds here at framboise manor keep her entranced and captivated for hours.

anyone who is her friend knows that she will stop at nothing to help and heal, dedication and loyalty are an integral part of who she is and she is dead serious about anything she puts her mind to. yet she maintains the most delicate touch and a smile on her face always, never afraid to live and love no matter where and when.

she is the most genuine human being i have ever met! and she has encouraged me to embark on the most crazy and exciting adventure i could imagine… thank you babe - i sooo love you!!!